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C OMPASSIONATE I NTEGRITY T RAINING
A S ECULAR E THICS A PPROACH TO C ULTIVATING P ERSONAL , S OCIAL AND E NVIRONMENTAL F LOURISHING
S TANDARD CIT S ESSION
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ompassionate Integrity Training can be adapted for many different environments, audiences,
and time frames. Below is a sample of a fairly typical class plan, which runs about two hours.
Find what works best for you, and you can use the CIT PowerPoint presentations as a guide.
Check-In and Review (10 to 20 Minutes)
To be sure the participants understand the content and practices from the previous week, it is important to
check in with them about this at the start of the session. Here you should refer to the Learning Outcomes
listed for each module in the Compassionate Integrity Training Manual as a guide. If you find that some of
the concepts or practices are still unclear, use this time to explain them again. Participants can easily get lost
if they do not have a good grasp of prior material before moving onto the next module. The Check In is also
a good chance to ask if there are any general questions about the material or practices. Since practicing the
CIT skills is so critical to the program, it is important to ask whether people have been doing the practices
between sessions, and if so, how frequently. This process helps you, as the Facilitator, gauge their
engagement with the program, and it also creates a sense of accountability to the group for the participants.
Additionally, this will give you an opportunity to help them through any issues or concerns they encounter
during the practices. If you have time, it is also helpful to lead a shortened version of the previous skill’s
practice during this time. This practice can provide an opportunity for those who did not get a chance to
practice to do so, while helping transition from one skill to the next.
New Content (30 Minutes to 1 Hour)
After the Check In, it is time to explore new content through interactive Critical Insight Activities,
discussion, Reflective Writing and Mindful Dialogues. The way you deliver the content is up to you and will
depend on your strengths as well as your audience and environment, but CIT is designed to be facilitated
not taught. Therefore, it is recommended that you begin with an activity and follow that up with
discussion, only then delivering content directly as necessary. This allows participants to arrive at insights
on their own through self-discovery, rather than telling them what you think. Any direct content delivery
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